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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can recommendations Augustine makes from Book Three prevent students from falling into the trap that misleads them?
(a) Augustine recommends that students learn the culture, language, and history from the periods that Scripture was written to develop the skill to interpret Scripture intelligently.
(b) Augustine devotes much of Book Two to detailing the demands on the serious student of Scripture.
(c) Augustine warns against allowing the increased knowledge of students from developing into pride.
(d) Augustine painstakingly differentiates between signs and things to guide students away from misapplying both.

2. How are things separated by Augustine?
(a) Categories of things under God's authority and things that are sinful.
(b) Categories of things that are enjoyed and things that are used.
(c) Categories of things that are Biblical and things that are non-Biblical.
(d) Categories of things that are things and things that are signs.

3. Augustine endeavors to answer many questions about what subject in Book One?
(a) The doctrine of God's omnipotence.
(b) The Christian conception of Christ's deity.
(c) The Christian conception of love.
(d) The doctrine of Scriptural infallibility.

4. What doctrine does Augustine introduce to explain how Truth can be seen?
(a) The doctrine of "special gifts of seeing" that God grants when individuals seek eternal truths illuminated by God.
(b) The doctrine of the "inner eye" that can see eternal truths even when tainted by sin because it is illuminated by God.
(c) The doctrine of "community vision" is achieved when individuals join their desires to seek eternal truths illuminated by God.
(d) The doctrine of "things and signs" helps an individual know which things and signs illuminate eternal truths.

5. How does Augustine characterize things in Book One?
(a) They are all items that fall under God's authority.
(b) They are the items that God puts before Christians to use.
(c) They are the items that God puts before Christians to enjoy.
(d) They are ordinary objects that are not used to signify something.

Short Answer Questions

1. Books One, Two, and Three focused on interpreting Scripture. Upon what did Augustine focus for Book Four?

2. How does Augustine say the speaker is going to know if their interpretation of Scripture is correct?

3. What is the difference between the time that God might deliver what seems to be an evil command in the Old Testament and the current time, according to Augustine?

4. What are the two categories of signs Augustine identifies in Book Two?

5. Even though Augustine does not mention this subject directly, what will his students need to master to understand languages?

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